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US 12,651,877 B2Granted
Hermaphroditic circuit board plug connector
AssigneeHarting Electronics GmbH
InventorMarc Genau
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Abstract
In order to produce a circuit board plug connector in which the advantages of hermaphroditic plug connectors are combined with the advantages of conventional plug connectors, a contact carrier is equipped with both plug contacts of a first type and plug contacts of a second type in equal numbers. Advantageously, the plug contacts of the first type are designed as “male” contacts (blade contacts) and the plug contacts of the second type are designed as “female” contacts (fork contacts) and can be plugged into one another in principle.
Claims12
A circuit board plug connector, comprising
- a contact carrier and a plurality of plug contacts of a first type and a second type held by the contact carrier, wherein
- the plug contacts of first and second type each have at least one connection region and a plug region, wherein
- the plug contacts of the first type and second type differ from one another at least by the shape of their respective plug region, wherein
- the contact carrier has a connection portion and a plug portion, wherein
- the plug contacts of the first type and second type are guided with their connection regions through the connection portion of the contact carrier, and are arranged with their plug regions in the plug portion of the contact carrier or at least project into the plug portion;
- wherein
- the number of plug contacts of the first type corresponds to the number of plug contacts of the second type;
- in that
- the plug regions of the plug contacts of the first type are pluggable with the plug regions of the plug contacts of the second type;
- wherein the circuit board plug connector is of hermaphroditic design, so that it can be plugged in with a further, similar circuit board plug connector, wherein, in the plugged state, a plug contact of the first type is plugged in with a plug contact of the second type,
- wherein the plug contacts of the first type are formed as “male” contacts and the plug contacts of the second type are formed as “female” contacts,
- wherein the plug contacts of the first type each have a blade contact at their plug region, and wherein the plug contacts of the second type each have, at their plug region, two spring contacts with which they form a fork contact, so that, in the plugged-in state, a blade contact of a plug contact of the first type is received in a fork contact of a plug contact of the second type between the spring contacts thereof and is electrically conductively connected thereto,
- wherein the contact carrier has two guide webs in its plug region for each fork contact, wherein a guide slot is arranged in each guide web, in each of which guide slots one of the spring contacts of the plug contact of the second type is received at least in portions and is held in a spring-loadable manner,
- wherein polarization bars are diagonally arranged and configured to allow a single orientation plugging, and
- wherein the polarization bars extend beyond the guide webs along a mating direction of the circuit board plug connector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.